Pelagia Cruise 2010, Bermuda – Bermuda

Today we join the newly refurbished R/V Pelagia for a research cruise to investigate coral habitats off the United States continental shelf. This programme is being run by my colleague Dr Furu Mienis who has recently moved to MARUM in Germany, and involves scientists...

Environmental variability at Viosca Knoll

Andrew J. Davies, Gerard C.A. Duineveld, Tjeerd C.E. van Weering, Furu Mienis, Andrea M. Quattrini, Harvey E. Seim, John M. Bane and Steve W. Ross The Lophelia pertusa community at Viosca Knoll (VK826) is the most extensive found to date in the Gulf of Mexico. As part...

The Whale Fall Observatory

As part of a collaboration with Adrian Glover of the NHM, Kim Last of SAMS and Thomas Dahlgren of Gothenburg we have been working on developing underwater observatories to watch the colonisation and degradation of whale bones. Our camera was recently released live on...